NMCB 15 is nicknamed " Bat Out of Hell, " after an unidentified Marine commander in the Pacific noted the battalion's hard work by observing that the Seabees were " going like a bat out of hell . " The name was officially adopted as the battalion's logo.
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:: It was used in " The Times " on September 23rd, 1940, page 4, by the paper's U . S . correspondent : " The Germans scattered like a bat out of hell . " I don't know how one bat can scatter, but that's not the point.
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Ames eluded them twice, once by awakening uncharacteristically early to leave a secret message for his Russian contacts and again, later in the day, by escaping a stakeout at the parking lot of the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Va ., driving off " like a bat out of hell, " an agent recalls now.
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As the meal is rolled out, audience members now traditionally yell out, " Here comes Meat Loaf like a bat out of hell . " ( The phrase " Let me sleep on it ", from " Paradise by the Dashboard Light ", is yelled out at another point . ) Originally, the audience yelled out " What?
